NO MORE HONEYBEES IN THE PERMACULTURE ORCHARD!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2023
- After keeping Honeybees for twenty years! I don’t want to see them in my orchard anymore!
“Albert Einstein once said that if bees disappeared off the face of the earth, mankind would only have four years left to live.”
“What would happen if they were to disappear?” “What would it be like to have a world without bees?”
“We’re kind of at a tipping point, we can’t really afford to lose that many more!”
“In China now, they’re hand pollinating flowers.”
“It’s now a global pandemic! All bees in the world are affected with these viruses because when an infected Honeybee for instance, visits a flower it leaves viral particles.”
“The bottom line is, bees dying reflects a flower less landscape and a dis functional ecosystem.”
So why don’t I want them?
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Do you see more honeybees or native bees in your area?
50 years ago, when I was a child, I remember my father's car covered by dead insects every time we took a ride. Now my car stays clean even if I take a long ride. It's just an example for how many billions insects humanity has killed in just a few decades..
As a beekeeper of 6 years, I agree with you on some points. Honey bee as a species is not at risk of going extinct any time soon. The decline of native bees, however, is not caused by honey bees, but by destruction of their habitats and over-use of pesticides. If we humans can be a little less greedy, both honey bees and their cousins will be benefited greatly.
Farmers using dangerous unnecessary pesticides are killing not just the worlds bees but all insects its a tragedy
I keep honeybees, and enjoy them, but I delight so much more in seeing native bees and providing housing for them, as well as planting pollinator friendly plants. Every now and then I get to see a Blue Orchard bee… what a sight to behold…
I have loads of bees in my garden .
Last year I saw plenty of bees in my area on my flowers..this year very few. I had to hand pollinate my cucumbers and zucchini 😢
I've heard honeybees can cause inbreeding in flowering plants.
I love the diversity of native bees on my property. The tiny ones are so cute! The dark ones are very abundant here. They swarmed my early flowers like crocus and wood violets. Hoping to add even more of those this fall to give them that early spring food.
Great video Stefan. This is why I promote log beehives. Focus more on developing flora. A backyard beekeeper may have 5 beehives each with two or three supers and only a handful of plants in their garden. On my property I have 1 log beehive and several bumblebee nests in my built up hugelkulturs. Log beehives are never opened. Never treated. And, never fed. The honeybee nest can survive for years in this condition. And when they finally do die out or abscond they leave behind delicious aged honey covered in propolis.
Bees are not the problem!
The bees being a little too efficient at pollinating? The plus-side is honey if you manage to harvest that from a hive... a lot of work for something native pollinators probably do in a fashion that doesn't cause over-pollination?
Completely agree. Getting honey bees because of bee populations declining would be like getting chickens because of declining bird populations.
The ants pollinate my vegetables and raspberries more then the bees do now.
Humans are in the "find out" phase of "F-around and find out" regarding how we treat our planet.
i struggled with this when i first started to build my little orchard. i wanted to have honey bees but i learned about the native bees. for the past 40+yrs as i have changed the soil and built a very diverse plant and animal base here, i have noticed a huge increase in native bees. a surprising result is that there are now no aggressive wasps here at all. when i first got this place in the early 80's you could hardly go outside as you would be attacked by yellow jackets, and aggressive wasps. the eve of the barn was like a condominium for aggressive insects and they just really went for you. now there is a gentle humming all around of native bees as they tumble from flower to flower. every day i try to improve the balance of the wild life habitat / orchard / garden / oasis i have here and it brings me peace, contentment, love, and purpose. it is better than any therapy out there. get rid of your stupid american gardens people... it will save your life.
There is a good population of native bees at my place in middle Tennessee. I do have 3 honeybee hives, but in early spring it is the native bees I see doing the most pollination in my small fruit orchard. And in the garden I can see which blossoms the native bees prefer and which the honeybee prefers. There is a lot of activity and fun to watch. I love to have the honey, but I'm especially excited to see all the native bees. Good video here!
If farmers are applying pesticides to flowering crops, they’re not following the labels, which is federal law.
This summer, I have not noticed any bumble bees and while there are usually tons of monarch butterflies on the milkweed this year, I think I have only seen one. Is it the smoke from the wild fires in Canada blowing down here and disrupting their life cycle or is it something else?
We no longer spray, and our mowing is greatly reduced. I now see giant daisy's, dragonflies, hedgehogs etc coming back to our home garden. We have greatly increased usage of the heather and the lavender plants for winter & summer flowering. So many bees thankfully are appearing.